Page 124 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

imprisonment following a guilty verdict. Generally, the charges and

personal history are considered in determining bail and sentencing,
and specifically defined by law. The punishment is meant to fit the

crime. A person should not be imprisoned for decades because of
lesser crimes. We are not to be subjected to punishment for

exercising our inherent birthrights – such as speaking against our
government, as does happen throughout the unfree world.

In the new United States of America, these inherent birthrights
equal to all residents and provides protections against the tyranny

and oppression of a government harassing, seizing, detaining,
charging, confining and imprisoning a person without the due

processes that protect them equally, as provided for in these
collective rights.

Ninth and Tenth Amendments
These amendments specifically protect the sovereignty of the

individual and states from the central government. It provides that
these rights are not the only rights of the individual. If further tells

the central government that those powers and authorities not
specified to them are of the states and collective individuals. These

two amendments are present to restrict the government and pre-
empt the tyranny and oppression experienced by the colonists by

the overstepping of those in authority to them. It also presents that
the governments – central and state – are of the People, by the

People and for the People. Finally, it limits government to two

specific duties, further addressed in the Constitution – for the
protection and general welfare of the people and Country through
limited government, powers and authority. The Bill of Rights places

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